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Ray Seals <rseals@vdsi.net> writes:

> We have purchased 15 of these with a single 73Gig SATA drive.  Has
> anyone gotten 5.3 to run on a Dell SATA single drive?  They are
> currently scheduled to have the Red Death installed but I want to snatch
> them from the clutches of almost evil if possible.

I have a similar model (the 370) running FreeBSD 5.3 just fine, with
the standard SATA disk.  The CD drive acts a little funny (under any
operating system).

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Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area
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